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Marina Vaizey

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Marina Vaizey was art critic for the Financial Times, then the Sunday Times, edited the Art Quarterly, has been a judge for the Turner Prize, and a trustee of several museums; books include 100 Masterpieces, The Artist as Photographer and Great Women Collectors. She's currently a freelance art critic and lecturer. This drawing of Marina as a character from Jane Austen is 40 years old.

Articles By Marina Vaizey

Victorian Giants, National Portrait Gallery review - pioneers of photography

Thursday, 15 March 2018 Read more...

Agnès Poirier: Left Bank review - Paris in war and peace

Sunday, 11 March 2018 Read more...

Civilisations, BBC Two review - no shocks from Schama

Friday, 02 March 2018 Read more...

Ursula K Le Guin - Dreams Must Explain Themselves review - enraging and enlightening

Sunday, 25 February 2018 Read more...

Mick Herron: London Rules review - hypnotically fascinating, absolutely contemporary

Sunday, 18 February 2018 Read more...

Andreas Gursky, Hayward Gallery review - staggering scale, personal perspective

Tuesday, 06 February 2018 Read more...

Afua Hirsch: Brit(ish) review - essential reading on identity

Sunday, 04 February 2018 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: The Mystery of Picasso

Friday, 02 February 2018 Read more...

Charles I: King and Collector, Royal Academy review - a well executed display of taste

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 Read more...

Great American Railway Journeys, Series 3, BBC Two review - edutainment despite shortage of trains

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 Read more...

Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection, BBC Four review - monarchs knew the power of the portrait

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 Read more...

David Lodge: Writer’s Luck - A Memoir 1976-1991 review - literary days, in detail

Sunday, 14 January 2018 Read more...

Big Cats, BBC One review - how cats conquered the world

Friday, 12 January 2018 Read more...

Little Women, BBC One review - life during wartime with the March sisters

Thursday, 28 December 2017 Read more...

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees, BBC One review - an arboreal delight

Thursday, 21 December 2017 Read more...

Jenny Uglow: Mr Lear - A Life of Art and Nonsense review - a lonely Victorian life, so richly illustrated

Sunday, 17 December 2017 Read more...

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